Today I announce officially that Plurkr will no longer be a Plurk Related Website.

Sorry for that, but I really didn’t had the necessary time to do that.
From now on Plurkr will be a technology related blog and will not have anything to do with Plurk.

In few days/weeks this domain will no longer exist and will be redirected to www.plurkr.net

So long goodbye…

I had a lot of stuff to do and I didn’t had time to be more active here.

I know that the website still waits to be launched [shame on me !!!]  so… I hope that this message will be a new beginning for Plurkr

See you soon

The theme is available in 10 color schemes, so you can choose your favorite:

Install the themes now:

Lime, Aqua, White, Red, Ocean Blue, Brownish, Pinkish, Purple, Yellow, Grey

Enjoy!

This is a guest-post written by Don White

I assume if you’re reading this article you already know about Plurk. If not, there are plenty of other articles in this blog that will explain Plurk. As for the “me” in the title, I’m a 65 year old, retired Public Servant, Linux advocate, computer aficionado, avid Internet user, social networking junkie, photographer and musician - all of which I engage in with varying degrees of success. But the only thing I intend to talk about today is social networking: Plurk and me.

I originally became involved with computers in 1978 when I purchased a Commodore PET 2001. By the early 1980s I had my first exposure to what could be called “early social networking” via Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) and I actually ran a BBS out of my home for a number of years. By the early-90s Internet access had become available at home and I started using email and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to communicate with people.

Then along came ICQ in the mid-90s and I started to connect with people world wide. I used various Instant Messaging services until 2007 when I was introduced to the social networking / micro-blogging service, Twitter, during Ed Dale’s Thirty Day Challenge. I started using Twitter on a regular basis meeting more and more people around the globe. One of these, Allan Cockerill, a friend in Australia,  introduced me to Plurk in June 2008.

Once I saw Plurk’s horizontal, scrollable timeline of time stamped messages (Plurks) along with the drop-down window containing all responses to the Plurk, I was hooked .

Plurk has become my main means of communicating within the social networking milieu mainly because of the ease with which I can track ongoing conversations (Plurks and responses). I quickly came to realize that Twitter was good for making announcement but Plurk had put the “social” back in social networking. I build my network of connections (friends) by checking the timelines of those who have responded to a Plurk, if I have not encountered them before. If the content of their timeline looks interesting I will either add them as a friend (once they have agreed to the request) or simply follow their Plurks. And in turn, I receive friendship requests from Plurkers who have come across me in a similar manner.

The one thing I find within Plurk is a sense of community that quickly builds up amongst the users. You can quickly become emotionally involved with the successes and failures, the joy and the sorrow of these on-line friends. If they disappear for a number of days you begin to worry about them and make inquiries of common friends. If they have a birthday, get a new job, have a baby, get married, etc., you celebrate with them. If they feel down you try to raise their spirits. As in any relationship, occasionally there are disagreements and arguments but as in most friendships these are usually resolved in an amicable manner.

As my group of friends has grown it has become virtually impossible to respond to every Plurk that appears on my timeline. However, there is a core group that I normally converse with, however briefly, each day. I then scan the timeline looking for interesting Plurks for which I may have a response. After that, I must confess, the remainder get MAAR’ed (Mark All As Read). But I do try to respond to every active friend at least once or twice a week.

Will I continue to use Plurk in the foreseeable future? I believe so, simply because of the emotional connections that have developed in this community of users. These are people I would miss if I didn’t hear from them occasionally. These “digital world” friends do not replace those in my “analogue world” but strongly supplement them.

I imagine I’ll continue to build my network of friends and acquaintances for quite awhile to come. And hopefully, if you’re interested, I’ll meet you in Plurk as well.

Don White
http://www.plurk.com/user/donwhite

• Pat Law’s free plurk badges are simple, but in the same time great
• Jim Metzger also added on his blog 2 nice plurk badges
• If you want to show the world how many followers do you have or how big is your… Karma, just use the badges created by François-Guillaume Ribreau. Here they are: Karma Counter or Plurk Followers counter
• Graham Smith has on his blog 2 nice Plurk Chicklets: here

For the moment these are all the Plurk badges that I know… Anyway, in the future, I want this post to grow.

So if you know other web sites / designers that have Plurk Badges please leave me a comment with the link and I’ll update the list – Thanks

Great thing – now we can easily add our favorite plurks to our Social Bookmarking accounts.

What do you think about this feature? [if it’s an old one sorry, but I rarely use the Plurk page]

I know that the tab was temporally removed few days ago, but I really want it / need it back… and not just me

So, A-Team – do something and bring back My Private Plurks

click here to install it or here to see Jason’s post !!!

Few days ago I’ve made here a list with the funny looking Plurk Creatures…

As many of you know, Plurk has added these days some new Plurk Creatures, that are actually the old Plurk Creatures, but colored…

For the moment only a part of all the creatures were colored, but for sure the rest will soon be also “bring to life”

So without any other unnecessary words here are the Colored Plurk Creatures

I must say that the design is pretty cool and I would like to see the A-Team taking seriously some of Jason’s ideas

To see Jason’s design click on the image: